scrape_user.py

import praw
import yaml
import json

params = yaml.safe_load(open('params.yaml'))['scrape_user']
username = params['username']

reddit = praw.Reddit(
    client_id="83adArc_D-RzLA",
    client_secret="sYyJyc67NIeGvOu5Aenq-nVr3hZbrw",
    password="rosjia@3",
    user_agent="testscript by u/fakebot3",
    username="hushjeee",
)

def query_comments_of_user(username, how_deep=50):
    redditor = reddit.redditor(username)
    dictionary_of_subreddits = {}
    comments = redditor.comments.new(limit=how_deep)
    for comment in comments:
        try:
            dictionary_of_subreddits[comment.subreddit.display_name] += 1
        except KeyError:
            dictionary_of_subreddits[comment.subreddit.display_name] = 1

    with (open("target/user.json", "w+")) as outfile:
        json.dump(dictionary_of_subreddits, outfile, indent=4)

    return dictionary_of_subreddits


if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(query_comments_of_user(username))